Diva Whitney Houston died on this day in 2012, aged 48, while on this day in 1976, actor Lee J Cobb died, aged 65. He was Broadway’s original Willy Lowman in the Arthur Miller play, Death of a Salesman.

On the music scene, this day in 1922 saw April Showers, by Al Jolson, hit No 1 on the US hit-parade.

The song topping the South African Springbok Radio chart this day in 1982 was Tainted Love by Soft Cell which spent five weeks at No 1. Just saying…